#proverbs

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. ↗

— Askhari Johnson Hodari

#cooperation #inspirational #proverbs #unity #wisdom

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#better #boyhood #city #great #great need

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#advises #another #any #before #contradict

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#humor #proverbs #safe #sorry #humor

Life - with or without softener- is hard ↗

— Kate Papas

#divorce #greece #humor #international #marriage

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#paranoia #proverbs #questions #wit #wrong

many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised ↗

— Anonymous

#proverbs #scripture #spiritual #beauty

An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#afghanistan #folklore #proverbs #saying #sufis

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experienced #personally #platitudes #proverbs #them

Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time. ↗

— Anonymous

#inspirational #proverbs- #death